I know I'm a geezer and back in my day I was (and still am) ok with reading a fic without knowing in advance whether rating was for violence, noncon, dubcon, language or substance abuse.
Me too, honestly. It wasn't even that long ago - 2015, maybe? - that I regularly encountered all manner of violent and upsetting content that wasn't tagged, warned for, or even foreshadowed in stories posted on AO3.
And maybe this makes me a geezer, but I'm also like, Have these children heard of FFN? A few fandoms are still very active there, and the site continues to maintain its culture of providing exactly zero content warnings.
Don't get me wrong, I'm all for including reasonable content warnings. On the whole, I think we've taken a step in the right direction, but there needs to be balance.
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Date: 2020-01-27 11:36 pm (UTC)Me too, honestly. It wasn't even that long ago - 2015, maybe? - that I regularly encountered all manner of violent and upsetting content that wasn't tagged, warned for, or even foreshadowed in stories posted on AO3.
And maybe this makes me a geezer, but I'm also like, Have these children heard of FFN? A few fandoms are still very active there, and the site continues to maintain its culture of providing exactly zero content warnings.
Don't get me wrong, I'm all for including reasonable content warnings. On the whole, I think we've taken a step in the right direction, but there needs to be balance.